Article Review

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/06/03/apop060311.DTL

Author: Jeff Yang
Published Friday, June 3rd, 2011

The author feels strongly offended by the film "The Hangover 2"
Like many people, he enjoyed the first film, but when it came to all the asian references and penises. The Hangover 2 actually set a Hollywood on-screen-Asian-penises record that may never be broken.
vocab words.

Absurd:

utterly or obviously senseless, illogical, or untrue; contrary to all reason or common sense; laughably foolish or false: an absurd explanation.

Excoriation:

1. the act of excoriating.

2. the state of being excoriated.

3. an excoriated place on the body.

Bastinado

1.a mode of punishment consisting of blows with a stick on the soles of the feet or on the buttocks.

2. a blow or a beating with a stick, cudgel, etc.

3. a stick or cudgel.

Lascivious 

1.inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.

2. arousing sexual desire: lascivious photographs.

3. indicating sexual interest or expressive of lust or lewdness: a lascivious gesture.

Statuesque

like or suggesting a statue, as in massive or majestic dignity, grace, or beauty.

Torrent

1. a stream of water flowing with great rapidity and violence.

2. a rushing, violent, or abundant and unceasing stream of anything: a torrent of lava.

3. a violent downpour of rain.

4. . a violent, tumultuous, or overwhelming flow: a torrent of abuse

Articles: U.C.L.A. girl rants on asians

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/us/20rant.html?_r=1&ref=asianamericans

I read an article called "U.C.L.A. Student Leaves School Over Anti-Asian Rant" on the New York Times, written by the Associated Press. It's about a girl who made a rant video (rant videos are people complaining about stuff) about Asians. It was published March 19, 2011.

When you read this, you will notice that the "Associated Press" is trying to be as neutral as possible. But alas, in a story like this, that's pretty much impossible. She leaves the college because her family is being harrassed and tortured, just because of her rant video.

VOCABULARY:

Triad - A long angry or violent speech, usually of a censorious or denunciatory nature; a diatribe.
[French, from Old French, act of firing, from tirer, to draw out, endure, probably back-formation from martirant, present participle of martirer, to torture (influenced by mar, to one's misfortune,tiranz, executioner, tyrant), from martir, martyr, from Late Latin martyr . See martyr.]


Sentiments - 1. A thought, view, or attitude, especially one based mainly on emotion instead of reason: An anti-American sentiment swept through the country. See synonyms at feeling, opinion.
2. a.Emotion; feeling: Different forms of music convey different kinds of sentiment.
b.Tender or romantic feeling.
c.Maudlin emotion; sentimentality.
3. The emotional import of a passage as distinct from its form of expression.
4. The expression of delicate and sensitive feeling, especially in art and literature.
[Middle English sentement, from Old French, from Medieval Latin sentīmentum, from Latin sentīre , to feel.]


Ostrasize -
1. To exclude from a group. See synonyms at blackball.
2. To banish by ostracism, as in ancient Greece.
[Greek ostrakizein, from ostrakon , shell, potsherd (from the potsherds used as ballots in voting for ostracism).]

Topic Rational: Asian Americans and Stereotypes

Asian Americans are heavily stereotyped and made fun of in the United States. The stereotypes and bullying come mainly from the younger generations in this country. It is important in stopping these stereotypes, for young people to realize what they contribute to in the stress that these people have. Do you know that japan has the highest suicide rate in the world? And that most commit suicide due to stress, its not just their parents, but its also that people in America choose not to differ between the Chinese people and Japanese people and will call a chinaman a Japanese person and vice-versa. Asian Americans statistically have the highest grades and best educations in the world, and that is not something to make fun of, but rather looked up to and competed against by the rest of the world. The last thing that Asian Americans need is to be picked on and harassed by the American people, especially when most of our video games and computers come from Japan.

Work of literature and rationale

Mona in the Promised Land: A Novel by Gish Jen, is a novel about an Asian American who desperately wants to be Jewish, but because of her Asian appearance, nobody believes that she is really Jewish. It shows that Asian stereotypes do exist. It's a great book, and it shows a lot about how people react to stereotypes and such. The text is about a medium level of challenge to read. Asian American females coulod relate to this.